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| | | Frontiers explores new ideas in science, meeting the researchers who听see the world through fresh eyes and challenge existing theories - as well as听hearing from听their critics. Many听such developments create new ethical and moral questions and Frontiers is not afraid to consider these.
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|  | | 漏 Marko Zaplatil
Institute of Archaeology ZRC SAZU
Ljubljana, Slovenia |
Recent discoveries of bone flutes suggest that man was making music forty thousand years ago.
Cavemen
Peter Evans visits a Palaeolithic cave听to see evidence of our ancestors' musicality.听Even playing stalactites came into听their repertoire!
But could man's musical abilities have developed much earlier than听this - more than two hundred thousand years ago?
Standing on two feet
'Yes' argues archaeologist Iain Morley.听听His research听suggests听our musical voice developed as we started walking on two legs.听 And this happened about 1.75 million years ago.
Musical intuition
Music therapist Nigel Osborne and psychologist Colwyn Trevarthen push our innate musicality even further back.听 They believe our reaction to music is based on an intuitive mechanism evolved over billions of years.听
Could this intuitive response explain why babies react to music so positively?
Peter Evans explores the evolutionary function of music in the first of a new series of Frontiers.
Next week:听 Optical Tweezers - how light can manipulate atoms and molecules. | | |
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